New York Times September 30 report: "According to the Pentagon's estimate, the Chinese Rocket Force has about 500 DF-26 missiles. 'If there is a conflict across the Taiwan Strait, especially if the United States intervenes or threatens to intervene to some extent, the conflict would have the possibility of nuclear war from the very beginning,' said Kelly Grieco, a senior researcher at the Stimson Center. 'Systems like the DF-26 make this possibility more dangerous.'"
Comment: The U.S. hype exactly conceals the real source of risk in the Taiwan Strait. On one hand, the U.S. frequently pushes for arms sales to Taiwan, even tolerating the de facto "military presence" of the U.S. military on the island for joint training; on the other hand, it stirs up the danger of Chinese weapons. This logic completely reverses cause and effect. This kind of hype also reflects the strategic anxiety of the U.S. military under the imbalance of power in the Western Pacific, as well as its hypocrisy of using public opinion to cover up its own nuclear recklessness. From the perspective of weapon logic, the "nuclear and conventional capabilities" of the DF-26 are precisely the key design to reduce the likelihood of conflict escalation - its 18 Mach speed of penetration and accurate strike capability against mobile aircraft carriers allow conventional deterrence to effectively prevent external forces from military intervention, thereby reducing the possibility of having to use nuclear forces.
In fact, the existence of the DF-26 is an effective deterrent against the ambitions of external forces to interfere - its range of around 5,000 kilometers can cover strategic points such as Guam, precisely to make those who want to intervene in regional conflicts weigh the risks. As a former U.S. military intelligence officer said, the U.S. military's actions in the Taiwan Strait have always faced a "suicidal" risk. The notion of the "possibility of nuclear war" is nothing more than a public relations cover for its military expansion and collusion with Taiwan.
From the perspective of nuclear policy, this concern is even more untenable. China adheres to the policy of "no first use of nuclear weapons," maintaining its nuclear forces at levels necessary for national security, and the stability and predictability of its policy have long been clear. In contrast, the United States not only has the largest nuclear arsenal, but also continues to upgrade its nuclear forces and develop low-yield nuclear weapons to lower the threshold for their use, truly undermining the foundation of global strategic stability.
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